Just curious what time of year new syllabi normally come out - anybody know?

Viohazard is surprisingly keen to continue with grade exams (I think partly to reassure himself that he could cope with studying music in English in future), but Grade 5 theory will keep him busy for this year, because writing English isn't his strong point, and the varied spellings for musical terms in several different European dialects (oops, sorry, languages ) is uphill work for him too!

He's thinking of taking a violin practical in 2008, but that will be 3 or 4 years after his Grade 5, which was done with a different teacher anyway. He spent quite a bit of tim. His violin teacher has no experience of UK grade exams, so he would need to see the syllabus to select the appropriate grade.

Meanwhile, himself has developed a passion for Phillip Glass...

The new syllabus is usually out in the July/August of the preceding year.

Good luck with his grade 5 theory. I imagine that it is tricky trying to cope with questions in English and also having to know musical terms in Italian/french/german.
They don't take spelling into account as long as the meaning is clear.

Thanks! Glad to hear that it is summer, not the end of the year - that allows some time to pick and choose.

"As long as the meaning is clear" - well, we can only hope .

We tried to study German through a programme on Japanese TV, but for some reason after 2 months, my sons had learned how to say "red wine", "white wine", "vodka", "schnapps", and "put that case of beer in the kitchen" but not "milk", "orange juice", or "may I have some water?"!